This page should give an idea about the replacements for pre 5.x controls.
Controls documentation
- 4.5 has many different controls - they're documented here.
- 5 has fields - they're documented here.
4.5 Controls and their 5.x replacements
Control Name | Replacement available | Name of the replacement | Known Issues | Comments |
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tab |
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edit |
| Text |
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editCode |
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fckEdit |
| Rich text |
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file |
| Basic Upload |
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dam |
| DAM Upload | Original dam selector allowed setting custom locations like upload/dms/simple media/etc is this the case with DAM upload or is this functionality handled by something else or completely done? Half of EE clients uses simple media for managing assets and will need some solution there | |
| link |  | Link | ||
| uuidLink | | Link (with a identifierToPathConverter) | ||
| date | | Date | ||
| radio,checkbox and select | | Select Option group | ||
| checkboxSwitch | | Checkbox | ||
| multiselect | | MultiField | MultiField allows to create Multi field of any type (Text, Link, Date,...) | |
| button |
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| static | | Static | ||
| hidden | | Hiiden | ||
| password | | Password | ||
| passwordHash |
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| include |
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| freemarker |
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| condition (form module) | | Switchable Field | ||
| Twin column | |||
| Composite Field | Composite Field allows to create a a field containing several Fields (Date+Text+Select field) | ||
few others not listed above (sorry could not figure out how to make this silly rich text editor to paste the data as additional rows): /modules/adminInterface/controls/buttonSet | ||||
| /modules/categorization/controls/categorizationUUIDMultiSelect | | MultField |
- has working replacement
- issues found
- not explicitly tested
- no replacement
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